Wednesday, February 6, 2019

Bonneville Power Administration Energy Efficiency Program Receives National Recognition (Bonneville Power Administration)

(PORTLAND, OR) – A Bonneville Power Administration energy
efficiency program has been recognized as exemplary by the American Council for
an Energy-Efficient Economy.

BPA’s Energy Smart Industrial program was honored for saving
nearly 1.4 million megawatt-hours of verified energy since 2009. That’s enough
energy to power over 130,000 average U.S. homes for one year. The energy
savings reduced BPA-served industrial load by more than 7 percent over the last
decade.

The Energy Smart Industrial program offers support and
provides rebates to more than 110 enrolled BPA electric retail utilities and
their industrial customers. It serves a variety of industrial and technical
opportunities including traditional custom projects, strategic energy
management, small industrial and lighting.

“Each member of the team works tirelessly to help industrial
utility customers meet and exceed their energy savings goals,” said Todd
Amundson, acting industrial sector lead at BPA. “This recognition really
illustrates their dedication. I look forward to working with the region’s
industrial customers to achieve even higher levels of energy savings.”

Now in its 10th year, the Energy Smart Industrial program
remains a vital resource for helping BPA’s industrial utility customers achieve
lasting energy savings. The program currently serves customers across seven
states, including large municipalities, small rural areas, and participants
from broad industrial categories.

ACEEE first recognized the Energy Smart Industrial as an
exemplary program in 2013.

BPA accrues energy efficiency savings across five primary
sectors: residential, commercial, industrial, agricultural and federal – as
well as through secondary avenues such as improved building codes and savings
that occur independently of specific programmatic efforts.

About Me

Joel Myer works at an electrical utility in Washington State.
Prior to his current employment, he worked for nine years at the City of Shelton as Special Projects Coordinator.
In 1992, Joel served a three-month term as an appointed Mason County Commissioner. As far as it is known, he still holds the record for the shortest term for a county commissioner in Washington State.
From 1991 through 1992 Joel worked with Washington State University Cooperative Extension, where he conducted an extensive study of the special forest products industry and its economic value to the Pacific Northwest.
From 1980 to 1991 he was News Director at KMAS Radio in Shelton.
Joel is a 1991 graduate of the Evergreen State College, where his focus of study was economics.
Joel Myer is one of the 2018 award winners, Foundation for Water & Energy Education Haiku Contest.
He has been teaching himself to play the ukulele (with limited success) since 2003.